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Spinning top E013808 - 2

Spinning top made from a gourd mounted on a stick, and fixed with beeswax and fibre twine. The gourd has evidence of red and white ochre band decoration on its surface, which is also cracked. A hole is pierced in the side of gourd to make it whistle when spun by twirling with the flats of open hands. Acquired by the Australian Museum in 1905 from Walter Edmund Roth, who collected it from the Cairns district, Cape York, Queensland.